Psychological Control

Because the host Phil's hometown is in Auckland, so our first relay station in New Zealand, the resting place is Phil's father's farm.Dillon and I were the first team to arrive, even faster than No. 2 Zoe and Joseph with a time difference of nearly three hours.As for the group of old friends Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi who arrived in the last group, we have opened up a distance of eight hours.

In the first stop, Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi were eliminated.And after a night of rest, we got up first at six o'clock the next morning and received clues about the next stop from Phil.

The second stop was to go to Sydney, Australia. I drove from Phil's father's farm to Auckland Airport. When I arrived, it was almost [-]:[-] or [-]:[-].We got tickets to Sydney at ten o'clock.Afterwards we will be on the plane with Zoe, Joseph, cowboy brothers Sam and Dean.

The first batch of departure is the three of us.Here I also communicated with the two cowboys for the first time, and learned more about their behavior.Dean is the older brother and Sam is the younger brother.Although in reality, Sam was more than ten centimeters taller than Dean, which made his brother Dean a dwarf.Sam is a full 1.9 meters tall, and Dean is actually not short, about 1.8 meters five.

The two brothers jointly inherited the family business of their deceased father and ran a farm together.After a little communication, I found that although they looked like country folks with no knowledge of the world, they were actually very shrewd.Shrewd but not insidious, it's an adversary that you can relate to because I believe they'll confront you head-on, rather than playing tricks behind your back.

Zoe and Joseph were smarter than I thought. After they learned that Dillon and I got a fast-forward card that needed to be given to others last night, they didn't rush to ask us for it.They didn't even mention it, maybe they felt that the time hadn't come yet.

It was a relief, too, because while Dillon and I were definitely going to give them the fast-forward card in the end, it doesn't mean I'm going to let them take it for granted.Besides, giving charcoal in the snow is always more important than icing on the cake.

The schedule in Sydney, Australia, is not much different from the situation in Auckland, New Zealand.After getting out of Sydney Airport and finding the designated vehicle, we received the next clue in the car, heading to the Sydney Opera House.Find a designated character in front of the Sydney Opera House, and then get the clue of the roadblock task.

The roadblock task is to go to Bondi Beach and find the next clue among the five hundred sand piles on the beach.But the piles of sand dug up need to be rebuilt by the contestants themselves before looking for the next one.This is basically a task of luck, and if you are lucky, you can pass it faster.

In fact, although I hate this kind of luck, but in a certain way, luck is actually a kind of strength.I was more worried about sunburn because I didn't really trust my luck and spent most of the day digging in the bare sand.So this time the roadblock mission was done by Dillon.

On the roadblock task here, Joseph almost used the extraordinary luck of shocking the program group to find a clue with a one-fiftieth chance in only 5 minutes among the [-] sand piles.So the sibling group was almost half an hour ahead of us during this time.

Dillon was the second of the three groups to be found, and the clue required us to head to Sydney's The Rocks to find the next detour in a famous pub.The setting of the program group that allows the contestants to find their way with seven turns and eight turns, in fact, from another perspective, it allows the contestants to travel for a while.Of course, it's just more urgent than the tour group.

Compared with Bondi Beach, which the locals like to go to and is especially famous for its beautiful scenery, Sydney's Rocky District has a rich and colorful historical experience.

It's a maze of gravel alleys, cul-de-sacs and courtyards, packed with shops, warehouses and terraced houses built in the early nineteenth century.Although long ago, The Rocks was just a gathering place for Sydney longshoremen and stevedores.But today it's home to shops, boutiques, pubs and restaurants that serve as a magnet for overseas visitors.

Thanks to the previous alliance agreement, when we first arrived in the rock area, we happened to run into the sister and brother combination who had just got the mission and was about to leave.Maybe it was out of the idea of ​​the fast-forward card in our hands, or maybe it was just a simple agreement, Zoe and Joseph pointed us to the right direction without hesitation.

The proprietress of the century-old tavern took over the clues of the next detour mission, and the two branches given were above ground or underwater.The above-ground task required contestants to go to Taronga Zoo and help zookeepers count kangaroos.As long as the given number is correct, you can get the next clue.

The underwater task requires contestants to go to the Sydney Aquarium, dive into the water like a diver in the aquarium, find a clownfish with a special pattern in the tropical fish school, take a picture with a waterproof camera, and give it to the diver to get it. a clue.

Both tasks can actually cause a huge waste of time, because no matter which one of them is completed, as long as there is a slight mistake, it must be done from the beginning again.But because I am known as the Siren among the survivors, and Dillon is an expert at diving, we chose to dive without hesitation.

Once we arrived at the Sydney Aquarium and didn't see Zoe and Joseph, we knew they had opted for the ground mission because of Joseph's hydrophobia.This also gives us a chance to regain the number one spot without having to go head-to-head with our allies.

The feeling of knowing that you have been defeated afterwards is completely incomparable with the frustration of seeing yourself defeated intuitively.In order to allow our alliance agreement to go on happily, it is best to just diverge from the mission selection.

Because the detour task can be completed by two people together, and Dillon and I are both good at observation, so after only half an hour of ups and downs in the water, we caught the fish.But Zoe and Joseph spent an hour and a half on the ground before counting the correct value.

Although it is the second consecutive victory, because in fact, in this round in Australia, only the three groups on the first batch of planes can really take the first place, so Dillon and I still haven't attracted too much attention.Because all three of our groups took the lead along the way, while the second and third groups arrived in Sydney, the difference was more or less an hour to two hours before.

But this too advanced time advantage also brought us some disadvantages.That is, we didn't bump into anyone other than a brief hello to the other contestants that night at Phil's father's farm.And there is an old saying that is good, know yourself and the enemy and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

Although we are leading the way now, it also makes me and Dillon lack of understanding of other opponents.Lack of knowledge about other opponents can cause us to stumble later.Fortunately, the program team will not let the leader's situation last for too long.

In the second round in Sydney, Australia, Romeo and Zhu Yingtai, an Asian male and female combination who were not yet in a state of lovers, were eliminated because they lost to the pair of blonde beauty girlfriends Lucy and Louise.As soon as round three started, our lead was wiped out by plane time.

"The next stop is Tokyo, Japan." I opened the clue card Phil handed us, looked at the words on it and read to Dillon: "Let's find a travel agency to see the earliest flight today."

We asked the front desk of the hotel where we lived and found the nearest travel agency.And when we set off, I saw Zoe and Joseph, the sibling group following us, also got up and came to the hotel lobby.Because traveling from Sydney to Tokyo is not as close as traveling from Auckland to Sydney, the earliest departure time of the plane starts at [-]:[-] noon.

The group that got on the first plane to take off, besides me and Dillon and Zoe Joseph, was Sam, Dean, the modeling duo James and Sid.It seems that the strength is not strong, but the father-son combination of cancer survivors David and Kurt has been able to lead in the second tier.The black and white police husband and wife combination, Tevez and Vera.

All of a sudden, the number of teams in the first tier increased from three to six.And the second batch of three retired couples Catherine and Paul, the blond beauties Lucy and Louise, and the homeboys Johansen and Louis were not much slower than the first-tier team.Their plane took off only half an hour behind ours.

Basically everyone is back to the original starting line.

"Hi guys! Are Brian and Dillon right?" While waiting to board the plane, James and Hitt of the model group came up to talk.James took the lead and said, "Both Sid and I saw your performance in the survivors. You are so handsome! I bet the detour mission you chose yesterday was the diving one, right?"

Someone took the initiative to come forward to make friends, and I naturally did not intend to refuse.After all, because of participating in Survivor, Dillon and I are already old-fashioned types in the eyes of other contestants, and we won the first place in two relay stations in a row. Although this result is not very conspicuous, it makes us stand out from the crowd .

At this time, Dillon and I are in great danger of being isolated, so let me turn this disadvantage into an advantage.With the mentality of going up that is shared by all human beings, make some friendly moves with other good strength combinations.This also avoids being attacked from the back when facing a turn.

Looking at James, a model with black curly hair and the unique temperament of an Italian man, I smiled and said: "Yes, you guessed right. And I guess you also chose diving, right? The Sam who talked to you earlier And Dean, I think they must have chosen the ground task of counting kangaroos."

"Wow, it's a pity that we didn't see the scene of the siren entering the water with our own eyes." Sid was a standard German with long light blonde hair tied into a small braid, and he said happily after James.

"And it is indeed a siren, you guessed too accurately. As far as I know, Sam and Dean are standard landlubbers. I originally planned to go with them to do ground missions, but James insisted on pulling Let me do underwater missions. Just to see if I can run into you by chance."

From Sid's words, it seems that Sam and Dean of the Cowboys were caught up by the second echelon because of bad luck in the roadblock mission and wasted too much time yesterday.And when the two of them met again, they formed a not-so-good but not-bad alliance.

"Oh, shut up, Sid!" Because his little thoughts were spoken out in front of the parties by his friend's big mouth, James beat Sid around a little bit angrily.Then he turned around with red ears and said to me: "Actually, I have been paying attention to you since America's Next Top Model. It's a pity that you retired back then. Fortunately, you made a comeback in Survivor." !"

Unexpectedly, James, who looks very difficult to deal with, is still a little fan of mine?Because it was the first time I intuitively met someone who had a mentality of liking and adoration for me, but could easily speak to someone on an equal footing.So with an inexplicable feeling, I actually felt a little embarrassed.

Feeling that the smile on my face was unbearably upward, I calmed down and looked into his eyes with a smile: "Thank you for your support. Since we are both models, let's make friends together."

I reached out and shook James's hand.Then, just as James was going to make a flamboyant face-to-face greeting commonly used by Europeans, a big hand pressed on my shoulder.

"Brian, what are you doing? We're about to board the plane." Dillon's voice sounded a little unpleasant in my ears.